The beauty of all faces
Photos : Thomas Straub @ Madé
Models : Maria & Katia @ Metropolitain
Hair and make-up : Tiina Roivainen @ Blunt
View On Colour n°23 : Folk
«Often the faces speak what words can never say. Some tell of eternity and others only the latest tattlings. Child faces of blossom smiles or mouths of hunger are followed by homely faces of majesty carved and worn by love, prayer and hope, along with others light and carefree as thistledown in a late summer wind. Faces having land and sea on them, faces honest as the morning sun flooding a clean kitchen with light, faces crooked and lost and wondering where to go this afternoon or tomorrow morning...»
«...Some of them are worth a long look now and deep comtemplation later. Faces betokening a serene blue sky or faces dark with storm winds and lashing night rain. And faces beyond forgetting, written over with faiths in men and dreams of man surpassing himself. An alphabet here and multiplication table of living breathing human faces».
Excerpt from the prologue by the poet Carl Sandburg to the book The Family Of Man, published for the seminal photo exhibition curated by Edward Steichen at the MOMA in New-York city, 1955.
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